Burning Toast Mac

but on a Mac it really is just a waste of effort. ...

Norton Anti Virus is also well worth the money. Pic editing: I'm a professional graphic designer and swear by Adobe Photoshop. They also do a cut-down version called Photoshop Elements which is obviously a lot cheaper. So I guess it boils down to how much you want to spend and how advanced you are. Compression: http://www.allume.com/mac/index.html Get Stuffit. ...

Of course, there's other possibilities why Toast might be able to squeeze a bit extra on each CD. One is format... ...

I wonder if you have a USB 2.0 PC card, as your PowerBook would not use USB 2.0 on the internal ports. Burning with USB 1.1 can be really flaky at best, and surely very slow. The hardware error that you get may also indicate that the drive is just failed. ...

When I make a backup CD of such files (before opimizing, that is) - how do they get recorded onto the actual CD - as fragments (collected from all over the volume) or does each of these fragmented files get written onto a CD "in one continuous piece" so to speak? I use Toast for backups, and usually select a Mac OS Extended/PC Hybrid CD format for burning. Thanks in advance...

party burning software. ...

Toast has been the de facto standard burning application for Mac OS X much like Nero on the Windows side. ...

in CD burning capabilities of Mac OS X. ...

and you should find the details. I have an external Pioneer DVD burner and can use iDVD with it, though to be honest, I've only done one project in iDVD and use Toast 6 for my burning needs. ...

Yes, I've benn able to burn a disk using disk copy with no problem. But if i try to open Toast 6 it gives me the OS error -72000.